What is the custom of the Spring Festival in Meizhou?

"Hundred festivals come first", and Hakka people regard the New Year as the most grand and joyful festival in a year. People began to prepare for the Spring Festival very early. 9. Sweet potato slices and rice cake slices will be dried in 10 for frying and frying in the New Year. As soon as the "winter solstice" arrives, we will start steaming wine. Nearly 30 days ago, every household would steam sugar cakes, make rice fruits, kill pigs, make tofu, kill chickens and so on. Welcome the New Year with great joy.

Hakka people celebrate the Spring Festival in three stages. The first stage is1February 24th to New Year's Eve. The first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month is the New Year; Lunar New Year's Day to Lantern Festival is the afterglow stage.

Sacrifice to the kitchen god

1February 23rd, after the evening of 23rd, the kitchen stove should be cleaned, and the old kitchen stove should be removed and burned. New pictures will be posted on the morning of the 30th, as well as wine, meat, candy, sugar cane, rice fruit and so on. It should be placed, and incense, candles and paper cannons should be lit in front of the kitchen stove.

Enter the year limit.

Lunar calendar1February 25th, people will enter the "New Year's Day" and step up preparations for the new year. Everyone who goes out will rush home for the New Year. After entering the fixed number of years, we should educate our children not to scold each other and not to say unlucky things. Before and after entering the new year, we should choose an auspicious day to clean the dust and clean the house. We should clean the tables and benches in the kitchen, clean the bedding and mosquito nets, and celebrate the New Year cleanly.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve, is the warmest and happiest day of Chinese New Year. On this morning, every family should worship bodhisattva and god. On New Year's Eve, portraits of ancestors should be hung in each hall, and red Spring Festival couplets should be posted at the gate. Red notes should be posted on barn doors, in front of livestock fences, on furniture beds and beside water tanks, which are called "sealing the year" or "becoming popular". Adults and children should take a bath, put on new clothes and celebrate the New Year cleanly. Each hall will also be decorated with tables, incense tables, chickens, fish, meat, fruits and so on. To worship their ancestors.

New Year's Eve

Have a reunion dinner in the evening, with rich dishes. Put more bowls and chopsticks on the table to invite our ancestors back for the New Year. Before meals, sift the wine for your ancestors, sprinkle it on the ground, and then start eating. During the dinner, the old people and children eat chicken legs to show respect for the old people and young people.

stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve

After the reunion dinner, the cooker should be cleaned to prevent vegetarianism on the first day of the first month or all day. At night, we should keep the old year, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Every room should be brightly lit all night. This is called "lighting the old fire". In some places, cowshed and pigsty should also be illuminated. Parents should give their children lucky money, and some places give old people lucky money.

Pick up the god of wealth

The God of Wealth will be picked up on the morning of the 30th, and the God of Wealth will come at a specific time every year.

Open the gate

On the first day of the first month, the door was opened at the auspicious time stipulated in the general book, and firecrackers rang out one after another.

Pay new year's call

I am a vegetarian on the morning of the first day of the first month. After dinner, people greet each other with auspicious words. The children are wearing new clothes. They are very happy and love to play. Some of them are vying to pay New Year greetings to the elderly: "My grandparents and uncles have money, and all the candied fruit is given to ya (me)."

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On the second day of the first month, visit relatives to celebrate the New Year. The second day is the day when a married daughter returns to her mother's house. The crowd on the road is very lively. Women honor their parents with chicken arms, candy and other things, and get together with their brothers and sisters at their parents' home, especially their newly-married son-in-law (the Yue family will post a book invitation) to pay a New Year call at her parents' home. Generally, young couples go together, and a son-in-law goes alone; Some came back the same day, and some stayed for five or six days. When you go, you should bring little hens, rice fruits, candy, incense sticks and firecrackers, and then burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers in front of the ancestors of the Yue family. At noon, the Yues treat, and the son-in-law should be drunk, not drunk or enthusiastic.

Eat old rice.

Eat "New Year's Rice" in the morning of the third day (some steamed on the 29th night of the year before last, some steamed on the 2nd night of the first month), put chopsticks on the rice, put a few pairs in the family, then insert a leafy branch, and then put some fruits such as oranges and grapefruit. Before eating the New Year's Eve, you should put the rice on the "Sun" shrine to worship the gods and ancestors. There are many dishes to prepare for the New Year's Eve, including chicken and meat, which is similar to having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. You can't kill animals in the third grade, but chickens should be killed in the second grade or kept during the Chinese New Year.

Exceed the annual limit

The fifth day of the first month of the year. The portraits of ancestors in the hall should be put away, the paper curtains should be taken down and burned, and those who go out on business can start.

Enjoy lanterns and Lantern Festival after October in the lunar calendar.

The fifteenth day of the first month is Lantern Festival.

Also known as "Shangyuan Festival", every household should prepare food and wine for the New Year. To celebrate the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival amusement activities will reach a climax.

From the beginning of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first month, entertainment activities are constantly going on in various places, mainly Youlong lanterns and lion dances, and some activities begin on the first and second days of the first month. Dragon lanterns and lions will be posted in advance before they arrive, and red envelopes and snacks will be given when they arrive. Dragon lanterns, lions, etc. It will not only perform in every household, but also pay New Year greetings to gods and ancestors in various temples and ancestral halls in the village. During the first market after the Spring Festival, all kinds of dragon lanterns, boat lanterns and lion lanterns will be performed at the party, which is called "opening the market".